Be part of creating a Junk Percussion Street Band in Dunbar in these free workshops. Make your instrument, learn Samba and festival rhythms and preform at the Dunbar Street Art Trail on the 20th of August.

Book now!

To learn how to make instruments choose between 2 workshops to make instruments book one of these sessions:

• Sat 30th July – for adults, children and teenagers. Adults must be accompanied by a child ☺

To learn how to play the instruments book these dates:
• Fri 5th Aug 10 – 12 ….for children, teens and adults
• Sat 13th Aug 14:00 – 16:00 ….for children, teens and adults
• Tues 16th Aug 12 – 14:00…. for age 9 upwards and teens only
• Fri 19th Aug 18:00-20:00…. for children, teens and adults

All sessions are FREE and at the Bleachingfields Community Centre Dunbar

To book or find out more info: susancarleton@sustainingdunbar.org

 

So far 194 households have pledged to make Dunbar and District Scotland’s 1st Zero Waste area.

Zero Waste to landfill means – we are aiming to reduce, reuse and recycle way more stuff so very little goes to landfill or incinerators.

Sign up and make your pledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__IaUDhRKok

All 6 of our local schools are taking the Go Zero Challenge – working to become Scotland’s 1st Zero Waste Schools!

Our schools have carried out waste audits to get a better understanding of what their waste is.  They are making plans and taking action to reduce, reuse and recycle more materials to send less waste to landfill.

The challenge extends beyond school life and our young people are applying what they are learning at school to all aspects of their lives out with school too.

All households in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward can take the challenge too  CLICK HERE – take the challenge!

 

 

Dunbar Community Science Ceilidh for families

Dunmuir Hotel

The Zero Waste Dunbar and District Project are organising an open public meeting/ consultation event

2nd March at 7pm in Dunbar Town House.

Simon Glover will share with you what he has learned about the potential availability of materials from our local waste.

 

The Aim of the open meeting is to:

The Zero Waste Dunbar team is working with Dunbar Grammar School to develop it’s recycling facilities.

As of this week the school will have the facility to send cardboard, glass, cans and plastic bottles to be recycled as well. This is in line with the recycling facilities available to each household. There will be several hubs situated throughout the school, each with three bins – one for paper and cardboard, one for glass, cans and plastic and one for everything else, and each classroom will have a green and a blue bin the same as the household ones.

Diners in Dunbar need no longer feel embarrassed to ask for a ‘doggy bag’ for the leftover food they’re not able to finish while dining out.

The Scottish Government’s ‘Good to Go’ scheme, run by Zero Waste Scotland has launched across Scotland following a successful pilot scheme in 2014, which saw an average 42 per cent reduction in food waste per restaurant.

Eateries throughout the region are being urged to sign up to the initiative, which provides free Good to Go boxes for leftovers. According to Zero Waste Scotland research, two-fifths of diners say they are too embarrassed to ask restaurant staff for a ‘doggy bag’, while three-quarters of those surveyed stated that they would welcome being offered the option.

Ylva Haglund, food waste campaigns manager at Zero Waste Scotland, pictured left, said: “Of the 16 restaurants in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Irvine and East Kilbride that took part in the pilot campaign, the average food waste figure fell by 42% as diners took home their leftovers – and 92% of those stated that they later ate the leftovers. Our research showed that if restaurants across Scotland routinely offered doggy bags to customers, it could save the equivalent of almost 800,000 full meals going in the bin every year.

“Additional feedback from the restaurants suggested that the pilot also prompted them to implement additional food waste reduction measures, such as adjusting portion sizes, changing menu options, and checking if diners actually wanted sides such as chips or vegetables before serving them.”

Diners are also being asked to contact their favourite restaurants via Twitter and Facebook to tell them they’d like to see the Good to Go service offered.

Any restaurant or food business of small to medium size in Scotland can apply to sign up to Good to Go and receive a free starter pack of Good to Go doggy bags, stickers, posters and branding.

Dunbar Businesses ‘Good to Go’ are:

Royal Mackintosh Hotel
Splatz
The Pine Marten
Dunmuir Hotel
Caledonian Cupcakes
The Store at Belhaven Fruit Farm

If your interested in signing up your business to the scheme or if you would just like to find out more, please contact paul@sustainingdunbar.org

 

Well done to Dunbar Primary who, on the 25th November, saved 20.04 KG from going to landfill at their toys and book Swap Shop at the Lochend Campus. Good work!